The actor has become the first openly trans performer to receive a Tony nomination for her role in the Pulitzer prize-winning musical A Strange Loop
L Morgan Lee, the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Tony Award, is just trying to put one foot in front of the other.debut in Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer prize-winning musical A Strange Loop, Lee received her first ever Tony nomination, an accolade she has hoped for since childhood, when she “[dreamed] about being one of these beautiful women in these beautiful gowns” who grace the red carpet.
“I have been performing in some form or fashion since I was in a crib,” said Lee. Her first public performance was in pre-school, where she participated in a nursery school talent show singing Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. But, with her early gravitation towards performance, Lee says she was innately attracted to acting, even though her earliest roles didn’t line up with what she wanted to play: “Being a trans woman, there is sort of this element of ‘things felt right’. Being a performer, being an actor, in some form or fashion, always felt like it was at my core.”
Lee has been with A Strange Loop since 2015, when Jackson first messaged her via Facebook about reading for the project. But, as Lee transitioned during the development of the show, she “started to feel less and less like this was a space that I belonged”.At one point, Lee was prepared to pull out of A Strange Loop, believing it would be mutually beneficial for the show and herself if she stepped back.
“The piece is quite complicated to live in as a Black woman. [Sometimes], the way that Black women are represented in the piece is not necessarily always the greatest,” said Lee. “I think a lot of that comes from this young man’s process of finding himself and seeing the contrast of what he’s expected to be versus what he is.”
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